Sonnet II. On A Discovery Made Too Late
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Thou bleedest, my poor heart! and thy distress
Reas'ning I ponder with a scornful smile
And probe thy sore wound sternly, tho' the while
Swollen be mine eye and dim with heaviness.
Why didst thou listen to Hope's whisper bland?
Or list'ning, why forget the healing tale,
When Jealousy with fev'rish fancies pale
Jarred thy fine fibres with a maniac's hand?
Faint was that Hope, and rayless!--Yet 'twas fair,
And soothed with many a dream the hour of rest:
Thou shouldst have loved it most, when most opprest,
And nursed it with an agony of care,
Even as a Mother her sweet infant heir,
That wan and sickly droops upon her breast!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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Scheme | ABBACDDCEFCEEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 624 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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